The Jazz Ambassadors

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1h 0mDocumentary History

The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginning in 1955, when America asked its greatest jazz artists to travel the world as cultural ambassadors, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and their mixed-race band members, faced a painful dilemma: how could they represent a country that still practiced Jim Crow segregation?The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginning in 1955, when America asked its greatest jazz artists to travel the world as cultural ambassadors, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy G... Read more

Starring Leslie Odom Jr., Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Darius Brubeck, Bill Crow, Duke Ellington, Charlie Persip

Watch "The Jazz Ambassadors" from streaming services Amazon, Apple TV+ (itunes) released in 2018. It's a documentary and history movie, and has a rating of 7.5 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie, and is currently only available for purchase or rent.